TSA has US politician on terror watchlist, say whistleblowers
Whistleblowers say the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has placed former US representative and presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard on a terror watchlist in its Quiet Skies program, Uncover DC reported Sunday.
Gabbard tailed immediately after criticizing ‘national security state,’ report says
Quiet Skies is a surveillance program that has the stated aim of keeping American travelers safe from domestic terrorists, which the TSA often defines as supporters of President Donald Trump. Gabbard, who was speculated to be on Trump’s VP shortlist, seems to have made the TSA’s list as well.
Whistleblowers told Air Marshal National Council (AMNC) Executive Director Sonya LaBosco that Gabbard is secretly tailed on every flight by three Federal Air Marshals, a plainclothes TSA supervisor, two explosive detection canine teams, and a transportation security specialist in explosives. LaBosco has said that at least one whistleblower is willing to go on record with documentation.
Federal Air Marshals were reportedly first assigned to tail Gabbard on July 23rd, the day after Gabbard publicly criticized the Biden-Harris administration, the “national security state,” and the “military-industrial complex” in a Fox News interview. On July 25th, she boarded her first flight secretly stalked by Federal Air Marshals.
‘We’re not doing our regular missions’
In November, LaBosco confirmed that Air Marshals have been busy tailing every person who flew into Washington, DC around January 6th even if they were not present at the Capitol rally. TSA operatives have been designating many of those people as “domestic terrorists” in the computer database.
Christine Crowder, for instance, made the Quiet Skies watchlist because she was in DC on January 6th, even though she did not attend the Capitol rally. Crowder is married to an active Federal Air Marshal. An infant boy has also been enrolled in the program because his father, AJ Fischer, attended the Capitol protest.
“[Federal Air Marshals] are not flying right now. The only missions that we are doing are ‘Quiet Skies’ missions and those are missions that are following the January 2021 people,” LaBosco told Fox News. “So we’re either on the border for illegal immigrants or we’re following folks from January 2021. We’re not doing our regular missions where we’re out there looking for the bad guys so for now most flights you’re not gonna have Air Marshals.”
LaBosco said she has personally seen the TSA manipulate the database so that anyone suspected of being a political dissident is marked as having breached the Capitol building.
“We’ve caught [the TSA] red-handed and they lied,” she said. “They’ve put indicators inside the computer system, they’ve manipulated the national database computer system and put that individuals . . . broke into the Capitol. That’s what they’re putting on there. I’ve seen these orders and I know exactly what they’re doing.”
The SSSS designation
Those who are part of the Quiet Skies program are unaware of it. Sometimes, however, their tickets bear the letters “SSSS,” which singles them out for Secondary Security Screening Selection. LaBosco said that those with an SSSS designation should know they will be “denied rights” that other travelers received.
“Their number one goal is for you to miss your flight,” she said. “They don’t want you to get where you’re going from point A to point B.”
Travelers on the SSSS list are followed by a minimum of three Air Marshals on every flight, she added. Sometimes the Marshals follow the targets when they leave their houses for the airport. Because so many Air Marshals are now being assigned to follow American taxpayers who were in Washington, DC around January 6th, LaBosco says there are not enough Air Marshals to follow “bad guys.”
